Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-10-19
JEDGE WAxEM ABROAD.
He and Mandy at Potsiam, Near Derliu
Palace of Frederick the Great.
fSpecial CorreApondeuce

He and Mandy Mt Potsdnm, Near Berlin.
Palace of Frederick the Great.
Especial Correspondence
PoTspAM Sept. Give are at present
ont here at Potsdsm, because it is quiet
country town, near Berlin, where Freder-
ick the Crate used to come to find rest
and pure air at his paNiss of Sans Sousy,
like do on my Wayback farm, and whar,
| when his work was all done, he shut his
eyes and went to sleep forever. went to
look at his coffin in the garrison meetin
house vault, and it gives me better i'm
preston of kings than l had before, for
thar amt bit of trimnins about the
place, and the coffin is a plane copper one,
more for use than ornament, and not near
rs fancy as what we usherly berry q con-
gresham in. The pallis itself amt no
CRATE shakes either, fer Frederick was a
plane sort Of man in good many ways,
but thar's mighty fine farm around it,
growed up with trees and gravel walks
and fountings squirtin and them kind OF
fancy farmin apurtenancies.
When l wrote my last letter from
Berlin l hadent seen the sights, but hav
now, and know Berlin about as well as
l do my native heath, and I believe I
have lernt enough German to ask any
naturalized sitizen in my deestrick fer his
vote, pervidin he amt allreddy pledged,
and can see the other candidates induse-
ments and go him few better
AS ushule visited the building whar
the national legislatin is done, and hap
pened to git in at the back door, The
back view looks like street car stabel Of
the Fourteenth sentury, and the buildin
used to be a factory Of some kind. The
front is Of stone, four stories high, and
faces on the street, like business house
err q hotel, and don't look so bad, because
it is new. 1t reminded me good deel Of
some politicians know, that is all right
to look at on the outside, but won't do to
APPROACH from the back gate. Inside, the
buildin is considerable better, and might
do fer a state capital fer one of our states
that had been in the hands Of one polit-
zeal party too long. The cheers was
covered with yaller leather, the desks
war comodious enough to take notes on,
and the other apartments war sufficient
to meet the simple wants Of national
legislator, who hadent been used to q
seat in the American congress.
AS ushule in these countries, the people
air the last and the least, and the gaEery
Accommodations air mighty poor. In every
pertickerler, though the Germans have
better quarters for legislatin in than the
English house OF commons.
l asst especially about Bismarck, who
consider is the connectin link of the Ger.
man confederation, and sot fer brief
space of time in his cheer, which is on a
rostrum runnin around jist below the
presidents desk, and is similar to the
cheers Of the members and not overly
!, cumfortible, like most lether cheers
which wares slick, and has tendency te
, persipitate statesman underneath his
desk eff he stretches out his legs and goes
to sleep when n Teller member is maxim
/ duh speech, which frequently happens.
To git into the reichstag costs about
fifteen cents, but you don't have to buy
ticket at the box Office like you do at the
: capital in Vienna. AS the legislator.
, don't git any salery. spose they divide NJ
) the gate money to help pay election ex
penses.
l diden't see the kaiser, fer the ole
man, who IS gettin mighty feeble, was
away at wGtcrin place, but in every
, picter shop and book store in Berlin seer
from one to a dozen likenesses of him, bis
, and little, and it seemed to me that h,
? must be as popular in the German capita
as Mrs. Cleveland is in ourn.
One day as Nanny and me was wanderir
over in the grounds Of the Monbijo Shatto
, whar king used to live, we come acrost
quite unexpected, the English church, ant
Mandy wanted to go in and see what i
t looked like.
The kaiser give the lot it is built on |,
how it comes to be in the pals grounds
, and the crown princess has a pew thar
, which also makes it better. The janitol
showed us around, and in the course o.
: his remarks he told us that Americans
divided with the English in keepin it up
: and be pinted out the pew Of the Hon
, George II. Pendleton, our minister to
} Germany knowed George was pious
kind of man, but didn't expect to fine
, his pew in the front row, middle lie, un
, der the very drippins of the sanctuary